Show fr’tafftfr tijftTirniMiiitifiii Standard-Examin- er August 20 1980 Wednesday 3B A NEW PLACE — THE BIRTH PLACE' There Is am Alternative the Hospita t© (Editor's not: Reporter Charles F Trentelman has visited a house in Kaysville where a lay midwife makes a practice of delivering babies naturally Today our first of a two-pa- rt report) By CHARLES sx VAV It WohIis 1 1 F V Staff er Yoiif SmmsgmatSoini vv TRENTELMAN Standard-Examin- "S Msensves' I' KAYSVILLE — Six- : t teen years ago Ronna Hand was having her first baby and finding Sony Cassette Recorder no joy whatsoever in smallest-eve- the experience Her doctor had gone on vacation the replacement doctor had a birth ahead of hers I I I micro w A ' and had put Mrs Hand on “hold” After I Micro M-20- 0 ' s V ‘ S Sony's two speed r operationone-butto- recording function "'’A light-touc- h mode medication she said she was feeling awful Take a jump in time of 16 years and one finds Mrs Hand now mother of six in a tidy little home in Kaysville sitting in a bed- buttons Newly developed coreless servo controlled motor with built-ifrequency generator helps give up to 12 hours battery 4 IN' n Instant-edi- t positive-actio- n 36 hours of labor and One-han- d cassette-corde- r n Vv life 6932-749- 2 room with pretty flowered wallpaper ruffled curtains ruffled lamps an early American decor and - V an atmosphere that even she admits is ' 0 ' y X ' ' stereotypically “homey” v A ' g- - ' & a - h "v v ' V SONY x 5 i X $ C '' : 1 4 'X K 4 It is not her home It is the home she owns r- ! v S x however where she is V hoping women will their to have their come with A families babies “in a warm cation at all and in the absence of complications no doctor Mrs Hand is a lay midwife a job she ad-mi- ts few people Kay- RONNA HAND stands in one of two birth rooms in Kaysville house where women under her care A lot of obstetrinumber of courses number of advantages cians she said make and has observed the over hospital birth a lot of money by se- practice The Birth Place she The lay midwife is said is for those eing a lot of pregnant women very briefly in their pre-nat- al exami- sville business — call-e- d nations Place”— is also the subject of some mi- ing to her obstetrician and trying to tell him of her troubles when ‘‘The Birth She remembers go- sunderstanding A she was pregnant Kaysville City clerk for example when “And you feel fooasked for directions to lish” she said “You the home asked: go in there and wait “Isn’t that for unwed mothers or some- thing?” Mrs Hand said many women hospitalized after birth wouldn’t need to be if they’d stayed out of the hospital in the first place) But Mrs Hand said she is not promoting anything dangerous People who give birth the way she teaches she said do it quicker safer have less danger of medical complications and save a bundle of money in the process So she says Mrs Hand writes off her critics as peo- ple unwilling to admit to anything new in the obstetrics business She bluntly said the established medical profession would like to put her out of business: Not because of anything she is doing medically so much as the financial threat she poses for two hours and then when they let you in there’s usually just an aide with your file and he takes five minutes with you and that’s it” She’s had women come to her outraged at that treatment she said not because of the lack of personal care so much as the amount of money they are paying for it Mrs Hand became a midwife she said to help women change all that There are basically two types of midwives The certified nurse midwife is a man or woman who has completed a course as a registered nurse and taken two additional years in ob- stetrics Then there is the lay midwife like Mrs Hand She describes the lay midwife as someone who has studied under willing doctors has taken a not certified and the law doesn’t require certification Mrs Hand also is starting an organization for lay midwives called Domiciliary Midwives of Utah The group is for what Mrs Hand calls “underground mid- wives” of which she said there are several hundred She said the group hopes to pro- vide training and seminars and eventu- ally some sort of certification Mrs Hand believes strongly in the idea of home birth “Every president but Jimmy Carter was born at home” she said with a smile The idea of home birth is one that conjures up images of early American the self-sufficien- cy neigh-borhoo- d women gathered to help the mother calls for lots of hot water and the smiling family doctor putting on his top hat and telling the father: “Well it’s a girl I’m again Clem sorry” Mrs Hand laughed at that image It real-l- y isn’t all that she stereotypical said but the home birth does have a MURRAY ' 'v"' give birth without medication and without the aid staff photo of a doctor Standard-Examinii loving atmosphere with plenty of loving attention” no medi- understand Her rm i 6000 S State St PROVO 1400 N State St (801)2664242 4119 (801) (801)6210770 den — v across the less-than-norm- t THE SAVING PLACE al she’s delivered Posrfisaif Padkage they scream?”’ she said She said she found the question a bit in-sulti- ng nee 250 4 rr and only eight that needed ? 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